Notable

Memorial honorary graduate Misel
Joe, the Newfoundland district chief for the Mi’kmaq
Grand Council, was among 10 new 2009 Trudeau Mentors announced by
the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation in January. He is a member of
the Atlantic Policy Congress, the First Nations Trust Fund,
Newfoundland Museum Advisory Committee and the Aboriginal Capacity
and Development Research Centre. He also holds a community seat at
the United Nations (Human Rights). The mentors were chosen from
thousands of Canadians for the great work that they do. They hail
from a variety of professional, academic, business, arts and
Aboriginal affairs backgrounds, and each will be linked with an
exceptional doctoral student who has been awarded a Trudeau
Scholarship. The new pairs met for the first time at a
Mentor-Scholar Retreat in St. John’s, NL, on Jan.
27–28. At the retreat topics such as Canada’s role in
the world, responsible citizenship and human rights were
discussed.